Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-07-09
OF BOOMs AGAIN.


the expectation Of making something"
out of each other, is the equivalent of the
effort 10 lift ones self over the fence by the
straps of his boots. Such blooms" are
happily, even if coarsly, hit off by an
Eastern Journal of wit:
The fore end of a mighty big real estate and
| general improvement boom seems to have
| struck this town. says the Ifglceed Banner.
I "0ld man Daggett sold a corner lot yesterday
for forty-twO dollars, five OF ii cash down. Bud
[ Dillon is putting up Il hen-house and new
| back gate. Sam. Shockley has traded his place
| on the avenue for lack. Hills team of black
mules. Zed Greenough is painting his fence.
and the widow Peevy is putting fy-screens all
over her house. Cap. Taylor sold a block on b
street yesterday for hundred dollars to a COM
pany going into the chicken incubating indus
try. Things are looking up nightly, and II the
boom keeps up this place will he made the
county seat this fall. Keep this ball a-roliing.
There are some localities in California
that are "whooping up" booms of the
"Pigweed" order. They are booming"
simply by raising prices and trading, one
with the other. The real boom" in Cal
ifornia has became the synonym, not for
waiting, but for doing; not for mere spec
ulation in futures, but in actual introduce
ton of new people, new capital, new in
dustries; in augmented production, in in
creased improvement of natural adj
vantages; in the calling i'll of people suth-
Gent TO occupy the country and develop
its resources. Now this is to be done, not
by putting up prices and shouting boom"
but by going down into the pocket and
putting stored coin into undeveloped pro-
perty, or in sacrificing a part of property
possessions in order to make the capabili-
ties of the country known and It's posses
sion desirable, and thus enhancing values.
1t is one thing to start boom" a very
different thing to command the "boom."
Sacramento has started in in the right
manner. She has formed an association to
promote efforts to induce immigration and
to make ready for it in such Il way as
to insure due share of the incoming tide
settleing in her vicinity. 1t is the pur-
pose not to encourage advancement of
values with the pencil, but to make them
represent productive worth; to make the
knowledge common property far and
wide that in this vicinity a man can make
comfortable living and lay by something
for rainy day, on a ten or twenty acre
tract of good land to make it easy for
the immigrant to secure such tracts; to
mo l-a c,tn1, Hate Nv
ing water to the land, by reserving and
preparing good roads; by securing 70 col
onists title rights in water privileges CO.
equal with title to the land by preparing
colony tracts with reserves, tree planting
and erection of such structures and attach
ments as will induce and enable groups of
newcomers to at once enter in and engage
in productive industries. This method
has proven its virtue in Kansas, in Color
ado, in Texas, and most notably in South
ern California, and in one or more places
in Northern California
Sacramento has her immigration Associ-
alton doing what it can to adver-
tise this section abroad; but it has not
enough Of means. The demands upon it
exceed its capacity. 1t is needed that it
he given more Of capital, and be permitted
to broaden its field and double its exer-
tions. Sacramento has its Improvement
Association that is moving in the right
direction, and proposes to make ready"
after the manner adopted so successfully
elsewhere. Let our neighlors in Central
and Northern California do likewise.
There is not northern valley or foothill
county that has not natural advantages as
to soil, varied and large product and eli
mate, superior to those Of any southern
county. But they are comparatively little
known abroad; there are but few organiza-
tons making ready the desirable places
for the immigrant so anxiously desired.
The " boom viii pass by these places I'M
til there is local activity in making
ready local investment in preparing the
way; local doing, as well as hoping.
There are too many rich localities like
that of which we the other day spoke,
where the inquirer, surprised at the lack
of good roads, shade, water and individual
energy, was told, "We're waiting for the
boom to come 1t never comes to such
communities. Ii does come where they
plant trees, pipe in water, lay out roads,
subdivide lands, prepare COLONY tracts.
adorn home surroundings, advertise their
section widely and persistently, and make
the country attractive by blotting out all
evidences of waiting for the BOOM